<p>Pictures? Or at least a link.</p>
<p>Its just too HOT. And Im talkin early '80s bad new wave HOT. Nothing HOTTER than that.</p>
<p>musicamusica–that sounds fun! And, seems like you’ve retained some musical interest/involvement (screen name! :-))</p>
<p>dmd77–that’s really interesting. My dog used to have two ‘best friends’ she’d play with at the park–they were standard poodles and I learned just how smart and energetic those dogs are. I never knew they were soft-mouth retrievers and some (I think?) have run the Alaskan Iditarod. You don’t think of them as ‘working dogs’ but they really are (it seems).</p>
<p>We’re contemplating getting another dog (after a year ‘off’) and agility sounds like a great way to keep a dog engaged/occupied (not to mention the owner!). :-)</p>
<p>Its funny how my wild dreams while young involved “entrance stategies” --showing up at the hottest club in the best dress at the optimal time to completely make the scene. And now my wild dreams involve “exit strategies” —selling the hottest stock at the best price at the optimal time to completely leave the scene. I fantasize about retiring. Im one WILD woman. :(</p>
<p>After I graduated from college my buddy and I thought about buying a 40 foot Catamaran with some other people and then sailing it to Australia and doubling our money. Then we would bum around New Zealand for a couple months. Unfortunately, never happened.</p>
<p>Here’s the story of how John Suter (John the Poodle Man) came to mush poodles in the Iditarod… [New</a> Page 1](<a href=“http://home.gci.net/~poodlesleddog/]New”>http://home.gci.net/~poodlesleddog/)</p>
<p>To work as air traffic controller. It will be so cool to go to work in the control tower. Yes even the name sounds good. *CONTROL. TOWER *. Once at work, it will be an adrenalin ride all day. After work, go crash with other controller buddies in our fav bar and congrat ourselves for job well done.</p>
<p>No I wouldn’t hang on to that job because the hidden stress will build and become unhealthy. But I want to be able to say yeah I did that.</p>
<p>dmd77–that’s a cute site. They are really smart, working dogs; I discovered that by getting to know my dog’s ‘friends’ & their owners (who claim it’s merely the frufru haircuts that give poodles their frilly image).</p>
<p>musicamusica–funny, re: the stock exit strategy! More lucrative than clubs, though!</p>
<p>When I was in junior high and high school, it wasn’t just a dream. I knew exactly what I was going to be when I grew up: a science writer at a great newspaper, perhaps the New York Times. And then I was the editor of my college paper during my senior year of college, and the idea of working for a newspaper for the rest of my life became not a dream, but a nightmare :)</p>
<p>When my son was younger, he had a great life plan. First, go to Ohio State, major in chemistry, and be the quarterback for the Buckeyes. Then, be a pitcher for the Cleveland Indians until too old to pitch. And then (50 years in the future, he said at age 8 or so), be a chemist. I loved his plan, and it was a little bit sad when this great dream died. (At least, the “quarterback for the Buckeyes” part of the dream is gone.)</p>
<p>If my S does well enough not to need any financial assistance from us, I would love to travel around the world with ‘Doctors without borders’ or with Kiva.org at least 6 months/year and donate much of my money and time to these organizations.
Other 6 months - I would spend in St Maarten on a secluded bungalow on a private beach indulging in oil paintings and cooking.</p>
<p>Easy.
Time travel.
And re-do my twenties while I was at it.</p>
<p>To be President. But I would have settled for the man behind the President, like Carl Rove. 
</p>
<p>Really.</p>
<p>I’m living a dream. Or something close to it. At least as far as work, finances and hobbies go. I’d like improvements in some areas but I’m in no position to complain.</p>